Veteran York County photographer Bill Schintz called recently with a query.
He had long remembered a story about a York County tie to President Dwight Eisenhower.
When Ike was was in White House in the 1950s, squirrels bothered his golf game on the executive mansion’s grounds.
So, the squirrels were shipped to Farquhar Park in York. If that story is true, Bill noted, descendants of the nation’s First Squirrels are scampering around Farquhar Park today.
All this sounds a little far-fetched.
But does anybody know if we have celebrity squirrels in Farquhar Park today? …

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